[Dovecot] Dovecot2 Antispam plugin questions
Tried to find some doc on this (other than the c code), couldn't, so, asking. I do almost every programming language, except C!
When using DSPAM backend with this tool, will the plugin send ONLY the signature and not the entire message to dspam for retraining? Concerned about very large emails. If this is the case, I'd rather do this than use say the mailtrain backend which I presume would send the entire message.
Having some permission problems though with the dspam binary since regular users can't execute dspam the way it is currently set up. Any security reason to not allow regular users to run the binary? Steve
I use the dspam plugin on my install: it only sends the signature.
-Greg
On 2011-07-21 3:09 PM, Steve Fatula wrote:
Tried to find some doc on this (other than the c code), couldn't, so, asking. I do almost every programming language, except C!
When using DSPAM backend with this tool, will the plugin send ONLY the signature and not the entire message to dspam for retraining? Concerned about very large emails. If this is the case, I'd rather do this than use say the mailtrain backend which I presume would send the entire message.
Having some permission problems though with the dspam binary since regular users can't execute dspam the way it is currently set up. Any security reason to not allow regular users to run the binary?
Steve
On 22/07/11 01:02, Steve Fatula wrote:
I use the dspam plugin on my install: it only sends the signature.
Cool, so, this is efficient then though not instant of course.
I had to change permissions of the dspam binary to 4511. Is that what you had to do? Otherwise, the logged in user couldn't run dspam.
If you want an efficient and fast setup, you'll probably want to run dspam as a daemon process. This means you can use dspamc as the client binary for the plugin config.
This gives the plugin better response times (small binary), and the dspamc binary needs no fiddling with permissions in order to let it switch uids (as the daemon does all the hard work).
-- Regards, Tom
All my users are virtual, using single uid on the server, so I haven't had to deal with that issue.
-Greg
On 2011-07-21 4:02 PM, Steve Fatula wrote:
I use the dspam plugin on my install: it only sends the signature.
Cool, so, this is efficient then though not instant of course.
I had to change permissions of the dspam binary to 4511. Is that what you had to do? Otherwise, the logged in user couldn't run dspam.
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